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Becht added that the ECGI would remain happy with having Shleifer on board as long as Harvard didn’t object to his business dealings...
...Osterman says, come from sitting around the negotiating table and watching the jockeying that goes on between large airlines and smaller competitors for everything from airport space to baggage-system access. "Once when another airline doctored some figures and presented them in public, I didn't shout or even object," she says, recalling a wrangle about an airport issue. "I waited until after the meeting and bluntly told [the executive] that we would be getting the real figures before we went forward. We got what we wanted...
...Bush took a political lesson from the debacle. He suggested that Communications Director Dan Bartlett dispatch an intern to draw up a case study of how Selig bobbled the matter as an object lesson in what not to do in a crisis...
WHAT TO LOOK FOR: --Do you come up with elaborate ways to avoid the object or situation...
...United World College, which has 10 campuses around the globe. At the U.S. branch in the Pecos Mountains outside Las Vegas, 200 students ages 16 to 18 work toward a two-year international baccalaureate degree. In addition to academics, the curriculum includes classes in nonviolent conflict resolution. The object, says Philip Geier, president of U.W.C.'s American campus, is "to create a global network of future decision makers." Recently four Israeli students joined two Palestinian classmates in a presentation on the history of conflict in their homelands. "We argued, hassled one another, agreed on some topics and decided we would...